Searching for a Balance

 "We need the light of prayer to see our way in crossbearing. Prayer enables us to transcend not only the natural reluctance that all o...

 "As we walked, there came the sound of distant thunder. A storm was rolling through the dales. I'd scarcely noticed how the light ...

I am a countryman, Lord, who comes from the country of the world. Teach me your city's ordered ways, the courtesies and gracious manner ...

 It being the beginning of fall and everything, I baked a pumpkin chocolate chunk bread (cake!) yesterday, but when I got it out of the pan,...

  Over the last two weeks, I've seen a bird perching, every now and then, on a post outside the kitchen window. At first I thought it wa...

 "Give money away, or spend it, and it is no longer yours. But give God to others, and you possess him more fully for yourself."  ...

I kept last month's Magnificat because of several passages and meditations which struck me. Here's one:  " What do you have tha...

 The weather is getting nicer - I used the oven twice today, and the house really didn't get uncomfortable! I've wanted to make brea...

 I decided to stop reading The Brothers K - I won't miss them. I w rote down the publisher, and the translator in case I ever have a rea...

  That is Leon eating, and the other is Leo, his brother. They're twins, and this photo was taken about a week ago. Leo isn't used t...

 There was a wedding - a young couple from our church. Many who were not going to the reception still attended the wedding mass itself. Ever...

 on top of the mulch. Sweet little fellow.

Loving Father, you are our help. Your kindness is a greater good than life. May we bless you in our daily lives,    always calling upon your...

 I've been reading "The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion". I kept running into glowing praises of the "journals" ...

 I was continuing on with Watership Down, when it got so tense I couldn't leave it; so I made more progress than I expected to. I've...

 We got in the car this morning, heading down the road to go to Mass, and a little sparrow landed on the outside of the passenger side, wher...

 I've been wondering at what level cats can communicate information to one another.  After Benny was coming around for a few weeks, Leon...

 May God the Father bless us, May God the Son heal us, May the Holy Spirit enlighten us and give us eyes to see with, ears to hear with, and...

 "Martha and I might have settled over a book, or taken up our embroidery, or written letters ourselves to a numerous correspondence - ...

 "Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy; if you want your pet...

 "..I also know even better now that it's always amidst the siege that God's kindness arrives. We live in a world at war and wi...

 Here's a project I began a few years ago, but when something has a place in this house, it can easily be forgotten. But then I remember...

 "Our peace doesn't come from the world, from exterior circumstances... It is the fruit of prayer...The only time we have good disc...

 We've had such beautiful weather this week - so welcome, after the Previous Awful. And the nights are in the fifties lately! Very unusu...

 "O God, in your love, you have sown the Good News of the Gospel in the wilderness of the world and brought it to flower and fruit thro...

 It was ninety-eight degrees on Tuesday; yesterday was supposed to be slightly cooler, with possible storms in the evening. I went to work a...

 I've been reading an article in Plough , an interview with Ken Burns, the filmmaker and historian.  "This word 'liberty' h...

 She fits in it perfectly. She hides underneath it, so no one can see her! except her little face She chews on the edges, bangs it around, r...

 The pie came out well, I decorated the table with lots of red, white and blue, I made strawberry coconut milk ice cream and we stayed in wi...

 I was busily peeling and cutting apples when I noticed that a couple of them had a Liberty Bell-shaped sticker. That's it! It's in ...

 The heat's intense and the air conditioner is humming, which makes me feel in another world. I'm sure the cats also feel that way, ...